Ted Jolliffe

Ted Jolliffe
Jolliffe, c. 1945
Leader of the Ontario CCF
In office
1942–1953
Preceded bySamuel Lawrence
(as CCF president)
Succeeded byDonald C. MacDonald
Member of Provincial Parliament
for York South
In office
June 7, 1948 – November 22, 1951
Preceded byHoward Julian Sale
Succeeded byWilliam George Beech
In office
August 4, 1943 – June 4, 1945
Preceded byLeopold Macaulay
Succeeded byHoward Julian Sale
Personal details
BornEdward Bigelow Jolliffe
March 2, 1909
Luchow, China
DiedMarch 18, 1998(1998-03-18) (aged 89)
PartyCo-operative Commonwealth Federation
SpouseRuth Conger Jolliffe (née Moore)
ChildrenNaomi, John, Nancy and Thomas
OccupationLawyer

Edward Bigelow Jolliffe QC (March 2, 1909 – March 18, 1998) was a Canadian democratic socialist politician and lawyer from Ontario. He was the first leader of the Ontario section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and leader of the Official Opposition in the Ontario Legislature during the 1940s and 1950s. He was a Rhodes Scholar in the mid-1930s, and came back to Canada to help the CCF, after his studies were complete and being called to the bar in England and Ontario. After politics, he practised labour law in Toronto and would eventually become a labour adjudicator. In retirement, he moved to British Columbia, where he died in 1998.